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...certain extent, lifeless last week under the region's worst blizzard in memory. Some 3 ft. of snow immobilized Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and parts of Kansas, Michigan and Wisconsin. Temperatures dropped as low as 19° F below zero, putting a hard crust on the blanket and turning whole counties into blocks of ice. Said Allen Pearson, director of the National Weather Service's Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City: "If you liken a storm to someone wringing out a towel, this one was just superefficient...
...move of unprecedented boldness, the Student Assembly issues a blanket endorsement of "student fun." The legislation, the first to pass the fledgling government, calls on the University to "recognize the students' inalienable right to fun," and demands that the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life form a subcommittee to study the fun problem. President Bok, reached in the Bahamas, where he is vacationing with his family, admits "It's a difficult problem...
This may sound doom-laden, but the plays are redeemed by irrepressible freshets of surreal humor. Buried Child, now at off-Broadway's Theater de Lys, concerns itself with a zany Illinois farm family. Dodge (Richard Hamilton), the grandfather, is a prickly relic whose security blanket is the whisky bottle under it. His wife Halie (Jacqueline Brookes) is the voice of the nag incarnate. The eldest son Tilden (Tom Noonan) is laconic, even for a neo-Neanderthal. For him, the barren fields yield armfuls of corn and carrots, which are duly shucked, sliced and nibbled onstage...
...case was more typical of shield law conflicts because, unlike Farber's case, I at least got a hearing," said Porterfield, who termed himself "a purist who still believes that the first amendment gives blanket coverage to reporters...
...instrument on board the cylindrical observatory is a 1,440-kg (3,200-Ib.) X-ray telescope, which is larger and has higher resolving power than any other ever built. From its perch high above the earth's obscuring blanket of air, it will provide new and sharper images of the myriad and puzzling sources of X rays found across the skies-and new insights into such bizarre phenomena as quasars, pulsars and black holes. As Harvard Astrophysicist Jonathan Grindlay put it: "We are at the dawn of a new era in our understanding of the universe." In honor...